“Between the Earth and Sky” follows Thomas Burke, MD, chief of the MGH division and leader of its Southern Sudan Medical Education Collaborative, as he and his team recruit instructors from Boston and beyond to work alongside Sudanese counterparts to teach 400 medical students who dream of becoming the first generation of South Sudanese doctors.

As part of the Patient Affordability and Care Redesign initiative at the MGH and Partners HealthCare, 12 Innovation Units are now testing grounds for promising new strategies to improve clinical outcomes and enhance patient, family and staff satisfaction – while reducing costs and length of stay.

Whether an iPhone, Blackberry or Android, it seems almost everyone owns a smartphone – a device that can be used to check email, browse the Web and download applications. A newly launched mobile version of the hospital’s website, www.massgeneral.org, now allows smartphone users to access key information more easily than ever before.

The work being done to implement e-chart at the MGH and BWH will serve as a bridge to a Partnerswide clinical information system, called the Enterprise Clinical System, which will unify disparate systems across all Partners HealthCare entities.